Key advocacy documents to support the NCD Alliance campaigns in global fora.
This section lists documents prepared by NCD Alliance team for WHO World Health Assemblies, Executive Boards and Regional Committee Meetings, UN NCD Summit and Reviews, Sustainable Development Goals, and other multilateral & bilateral campaigns.
The NCD Alliance welcomes the opportunity to provide comments on the Interim Report of the WHO Working Group on Financing for NCDs, Financing national NCD responses in the post-2015 era. These reports, and the efforts of the Working Group, are necessary to articulate actions to urgently scale up resources of all types for NCDs to levels commensurate with the burden of disease.
This independent review of the NCD Alliance’s performance, as well as its governance and organizational arrangements, aims to inform strategic next steps and to ensure its governance is cohesive and fit for purpose to effectively achieve its aspirations.
Combined comments submitted by members of the Health in Post-‐2015 NGO Coalition and other civil society organizations on the final draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit to adopt the Post-‐2015 Development Agenda.
July 16, 2015 - ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – At the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Heads of State and Ministers of Finance, Foreign Affairs and Development, along with global experts, have endorsed increasing tobacco taxes as a key strategy to reduce tobacco consumption and the global burden of non-‐communicable diseases (NCDs) and help finance sustainable development. The NCD Alliance, the Framework Convention Alliance, The Union, World Lung Foundation and the Campaign for Tobacco-‐Free Kids today applaud this decision, which lends weight to the critical importance of countries raising tobacco taxes.
NCD Alliance comments to the WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity interim report.
68th World Health Assembly Statement by World Heart Federation on behalf of the NCD Alliance Agenda item 13.4: Follow-up to the 2014 UN Review and Assessment on NCDs.
Statement by the Union for International Cancer Control on behalf of the NCD Alliance 68th World Health Assembly Statement on Agenda Item 14.2 on Post-2015, May 2015.
68th World Health Assembly, 18- 26 May 2015.